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CV & Statement

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.-Rumi

Marijke has been a fiber artist since she finished School of Arts in Nijmegen Netherlands ( TEHATEX) in the early eighties. Since 1995 when she met Inge Evers, who gave her the first felt lesson in the same year, she has been experimenting with felt ever since. Marijke uses all kind of wool and fibers as sculpture material for her felt work no matter flat, 2 or 3 dimensional.

She doesn’t know exactly were her inspiration comes from but she knows there is a source in her that connects to her hands, eyes, mind and soul. This source she likes to vision as a kind of primordial womb, invisible and dark but with great potential for things to grow in. Like the woman’s womb carrying a child, an egg or seed, a mountain were gems grow in the dark.

Marijke is also an enthusiastic and devoted teacher with an unconvential style, with profound knowledge of all kind of fibers.